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"Martyn Champion of Aphrodite" "Scott Champion of Aphrodite" "Sausage Champion of Aphrodite" "Apo Champion of Aphrodite" How about NO champion of Aphrodite this series will be for the aces everyone speculate about Hestia immediately
A popular antidepressant is being recalled because it may contain elevated levels of a cancer-causing substance.
Click the link! The drug treats several things, including fibromyalgia.
Article dated June 14, 2026.
Thousands of bottles of Duloxetine delayed-release capsules are being voluntarily recalled by Breckenridge Pharmaceutical, Inc. The pills are commonly used to treat depression, anxiety, and fibromyalgia, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".
So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:
Excuse me???
you are right and you should say it.
Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?
Absolutely not
You know who would try that shit?
Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?
You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?
The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."
It fucking better.
Like to charge, reblog to cast?
God, can you imagine someone from Finland (or wherever) heading to a Midwestern state fair and eating every variety of fried thing imaginable?
I can, and arguably I must.
I always think that sport events, especially international ones, are primarily about fun and cultural exchange and hanging out together; it gets lost sometimes when people pay too much attention to keeping scores, but joy and building bridges should be more important. So glad this seems to be happening right now!
"Doty take this down" rhymes in the Brazilian Portuguese dub!! it rhymes!!!
just. please know. that giffing scenes like that is a fucking nightmare labor of love.
to wit:
bottom's the raw capture, middle's just flat curve correction to make the footage visible, top is the final coloring with /counts seven adjustment layers to add back in Literally Anything But Yellow
every giffer i know does it out of love for the game, but for the record it's not... easy. it's not just slapping the footage in a cap grabber and posting whatever it spits out. "professional" lighting and color grading has only gotten waaay murkier and flatter in the fifteen years i've been giffing on here, so uh. don't repost gifs, please!
I thought the bottom was a black bar. I didn't even realize that was footage.
Everyone say thank you to your neighbourhood GIF maker! Giffers are so important to the fannish ecosystem, but to so many people the amount of work involved invisible.
Imagine if they made TV you could actually watch
In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.
Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?
Yeah it’s one of the options on the Contact Support form:
for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.
Hey it worked! Maybe if enough of us make a stink they’ll fix the fucking system.
This is legitimately brilliant. Bug burndown reports (the rate at which your software team can close bugs) is a major metric for most software houses.
It takes an extra step in our part, but this is part of what makes it effective. It's not one click, one reblog activism and it hits them where they care: their damn KPIs.
love the phrase "but I digress." yes I temporarily got lost in the moors I wander in my mind but don't worry I'm self-aware about it
this scene is so fucking funny the english dub of this show is so good
loud warning
Rolling on the floor sobbing and crying and losing my mind at “GET INSIDE THE VAAAAAAAAAAN”
finally. an appropriate name for my ‘time to leave’ alarm.
What if we win?
What if the children go to schools unafraid of tear gas and bullets?
What if the birds come back, and the bees are healed, and every species moves from endangered, to threatened, to thriving?
What if the rainforest ADVANCES?
What if every parking lot had solar panels? What if every structure had solar panels? What if we built climbing gyms and terraced gardens in the skeletons of old coal power plants?
What if you baked your neighbor bread, and they shared their home-grown blackberries?
What if every person who needed a home, had one? What if every person who needed healing was healed?
What if every body was treasured for what it was, not what it should be?
What if every trans child's parents attended their graduation, their wedding, their new-name-day?
What if every warehouse became a closed-circle repair station? Goods flowing out, and back, and out again? What if landfills started to SHRINK?
What if the water and air were clean? What if there was enough public transit that the cars dwindled, leaving the streets safe for kids on bikes, evening deer, midnight cats and foxes?
What if we win?
How would you win?
And we've won a lot already, mind you.
The condors are back. The whales are saved. The sea turtles are no longer endangered. The cranes are back. The bees are recovering. The air in LA and Tokyo and London is clean again. The aquifers in the LA Basin are refilling.
Children are kinder than previous generations. Parents are stopping the abuse cycle. Being trans and queer is more acceptable than ever on a ground level.
It's hard to see if you're young, if you don't know how to step back from social media and the news. But remember--bad news sells, and the algorithm knows despair keeps you scrolling. It's a skewed lens.
We are fighting and we are winning against this adminstration's bullying. We are coming together against the bullies and they are running away scared because they don't understand that we will do that.
People are working hard every day to find ways to make sure fewer animals get hit by cars and planes and rockets.
Maker spaces are more common than ever. Solar and wind are more common than ever. Coal plants are shutting down every day.
Unprecedented numbers of acres are being bought back or given back to their rightful stewards, and the world heals because of it. People are working hard every day to learn how to help a forest recover faster.
We are not at zero. We are at decades of effort to heal the world. We've come SO far.
In 1982 there were only 22 California Condors left in the world. In 1992, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), with its public and private partners, began reintroducing captive-bred condors to the wild. In 2001 the first wild nesting occurred in Grand Canyon National Park since re-introduction. In 2002 there were only 8 pairs of wild nesting birds population-wide. In 2008, for the first time since the program began, more California condors were flying free in the wild than in captivity. Today there are nearly 500 – more than half of them flying free in Arizona, Utah, California, and Baja Mexico.
When I was born, there were no condors in the wild. I'm 37 now, and there are over 250 condors flying free.
When my mom was born in 1955, there were days when she wasn't allowed to go outside to play, because of the air pollution. When I was born, that never happened anymore.
When I was born, humpback whales were critically endangered, and people thought they were going to go extinct. Today, they've recovered to exceed their recorded numbers. Other whales too!
We fixed it.
We CAN fix it and we ARE fixing it and we DID fix it.
Since 1990 extreme poverty has decreased worldwide by over HALF.
This is not the narrative media sells us. We have access to more information about suffering now than we used to, but things are getting BETTER overall. Yeah some people are trying to undo this, but we have made SO MUCH PROGRESS. Don't give up.
Laura and Travis duo Fireside Chat announced for next Tuesday - June 23rd at 7PM PST, only on Beacon. (src)
here's where to find it on windows 10
Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.
IT GETS WORSE
I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.
LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES
AI is a freacking plague, I share this for any windows user.
What does Team Birdwatch have left?
CR Stats used to do this sort of thing back in the day, and so I thought I'd try to write up what this group hasn't used yet.
The big one: Teor and Julien have yet to level up. This will grant them higher proficiency bonuses and more HP. Teor will get notably more powerful with the ability to summon a steed, take two attacks per turn, and he will get three more spell slots (one first level, two second level) even if Brennan doesn't let him take another spell right away; plus, five more Lay on Hands. Julien will either get cunning action (helpful for moving quickly or disengaging) or an ASI/Feat (big wildcard there) and a third use of Second Wind. However, this hasn't happened yet. It's safe to assume that unless they die too quickly (and frankly, if they're just knocked unconscious? I'd use that as a level-up opportunity if I were Brennan; I think it will have to be insta-kill) they will level up, but it's not in play yet.
The unknown: I don't know Cyd's statblock abilities beyond the fact that he can attack and he has Divine Sense that has not yet been used. He has lost 3 strength, and is down a net 33 HP from max.
With that said here's what L5 Thimble and Occtis and L4 Julien and Teor still have left in the tank. Of note: Teor's strength has been reduced by 4 and Julien's by 2. Teor's is more of a consideration as that's his attack stat whereas Julien is a dex fighter, but see below.
Occtis: At 22/37 HP. He has cast presumably Tenser's Floating Disc (in that he used it to get Gaya over to the manor); Detect Magic; Summon Undead; and Life Transference. This means he has used both 3rd level spells and two 1st level spells. He has two more 1st levels and all three 2nd level spells. Gaya as a Putrid Spirit from Summon Undead is still up, immune to necrotic damage, at 28/30 HP, and Occtis can command her as a free action on his turn, though this is a concentration spell and will only last an hour. Also, if they are able to get a short rest (risky, but might be worth it) he has Arcane Recovery and Memorize Spell, the former of which can get him one of his third levels back and the latter of which lets him swap out a prepped spell with one from his spellbook. I don't think he's used Unsettling Presence either; and if they encounter any non-undead he does have Grim Harvest for himself.
Thimble: At 42/53 HP. She actually has all of her main abilities intact - HP and the fact that a single shadow attack has a 50% chance of insta-killing her is the main concern at this point. As a fairy, she has one casting of Faerie Fire, which she hasn't used, and, upon hitting level 5, a casting of Enlarge/Reduce, which I think she could cast on others, for which Teor is probably the best bet. She also just got Uncanny Dodge (which uses a reaction) and Cunning Strike, which uses a sneak attack die but can be used to poison or trip enemies. Chances are damage will be better in this combat, but it's an option. Her sneak attack also just went up.
Teor: At 34/43 HP. He has used one of two usages of Channel Divinity on a Divine Sense. He's used all of his current Lay on Hands on Cyd, and he's used one spell slot (Guiding Bolt) of his three first levels. He has not used his free Divine Smite nor his Daunting Roar. His subclass permits him a Channel Divinity to augment his athletic abilities. He is also the only person to have used any Desperate Measures, having activated it to dash and disengage, so he has one marked death save fail. He will regain a Channel Divinity if they take a short rest. The other thing of note: it is unclear if he is attuned to the Bracers of Oak and Birch. If he is, his strength damage doesn't really matter, and he gets a casting of Barkskin. I suspect even if he's not now, he will attune during the level-up.
Julien: At 20/53 HP. He has not used Action Surge yet. He has used both Second Winds, one for Tactical Mind and one to grant himself temp HP with Ride the Threshold. Otherwise, he is a rogue/fighter with no spells. He would regain a Second Wind on a short rest. It's not clear how many times he can use the Hare's Charm per day or if there is a limitation.
The first three are literal genetically enhanced space warriors and the last one is just some twitchy nerd who got lucky
Besides Samus would cream them all
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no but seriously abt the post abt people making characters less traumatized/molested for their lighthearted aus it makes me so saaaaaaaad unironically ….
I was gonna expand on this but I got too sad LOLLL 😭😭😭
And it’s not even always not including it at all but it’s softening it and making it less impactful and less central and less challenging like oh you can be sexually harassed, or groped, or even raped but after a certain point you’re just too fucked up to fit into this cute found family fic about teenagers hanging out at a strip mall or whatever, as if you can’t hang out at a strip mall if you’re too fucked up! Idkkkk
I do think it’s interesting how the novel Dracula is meant to be a modern setting from its perspective. It’s very much that genre of story about an ancient fantasy archetype finding itself in a modern setting, complete with the rules-lawyering that often comes with modern parodies (that isn’t to say the stories of Olde didn’t have fun with loopholes either though).
Except Dracula is a story that plays itself straight. The vampire himself is not stupid. He’s possibly the oldest vampire of all which means he upgraded from animal instinct and mindless echoes of past memories to someone who’s regained his critical thinking skills. The story begins because he’s already adapted to how the modern world works now by hiring a solicitor who understands modern laws.
He knows now that he doesn’t have to march into London with an army like he used to; He can just buy property and the laws of London are forced to respect that. Similarly he’s already experimented in and discovered loopholes to vampire rules and limitations; Vampires are bound by the permission of owners so he simply uses his solicitor to buy and own a bunch of properties. If he needs to be invited in, Dracula hypnotizes someone to let him in.
Vampires need to return to their grave every dusk/dawn (whichever comes sooner), which causes their coffin to act as an anchor that limits how far from it they can travel? Dracula simply rations the earth of his grave into fifty coffins and spreads them across London so his range becomes exponentially larger.
All of these things make the story almost come across as a deconstruction and it might just be! It’s just that Dracula the novel became such a trendsetter that people nowadays see it as playing things fully straight. It almost feels as if the novel is written with the idea that readers have a basic understanding of vampires and their rules, so part of the thrill comes in the revelation of how the titular vampire is working around these rules. Likewise I’ve heard it used to be a trope in English literature for a traveler to visit some foreign land with a monster and escape by going home. But here the foreign aspect of the story is just the first (and final) arc; The monster’s plan hinges on coming to the UK itself!
So yeah. Dracula isn’t stupid and he reflects the idea that people of the past had just as common sense as the rest of us, they just had access to less/inaccurate knowledge and things worked differently back then. Dracula would be like… That bit of someone showing a medieval peasant a meme as they comprehend it perfectly and aren’t even wowed by the Doritos. If Dracula was set in the 21st century he’d probably understand social media well enough to become an influencer if he wanted to, though the issue of being invisible in cameras wouldn’t help.
Dracula is full of details that put it in what was at the time an incredibly modern time frame, which only isn't obvious to readers now because it's been more than a hundred years. A few off the top of my head:
Jonathan brings photographs of the properties to show to Dracula that he took with a Kodak portable camera.
Seward keeps an audio journal via phonograph recording.
Seward being a psychiatrist- the idea that you could actually try to talk to and understand a "lunatic" in order to help them get better instead of just throwing away the key was a depressingly novel concept in medicine at the time. Freud's Studies on Hysteria only came out two years before Dracula, for instance.
Blood transfusions. It's easy to make jokes about how Dracula was written before people knew about blood types and that's why Lucy gets transfusions from so many people with no problem, but because blood types wouldn't be discovered until 3 years after it was published, blood transfusion was still an extremely experimental and risky treatment that many doctors would hesitate to even consider, because sometimes when it was performed the patient would instantly die and no one knew why.
Mina's joke about "the New Woman"- anxieties about gender and feminism in Dracula are the kind of thing whole theses have been written about, but there's an obvious irony to this comment because Mina kind of is the New Woman. In contrast to Lucy, Mina is a highly-educated woman with a real actual job, and she works to hone those practical job skills because she plans to be an active participant in Jonathan's work.
When Van Helsing decks Lucy's room out with garlic flowers, he telegrams to Holland for overnight shipping across the Channel from a friend who owns a greenhouse, because garlic flowers are a good 3 months or so out of season at the time the chapter is set.
Jonathan literally makes a comment in Chapter 3 about the surreal contrasting modernity of sitting at an antique desk in an ancient castle and frantically scribbling steganographic shorthand in his notebook.